Cinema Quotes - Page 40

• Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone. You just have the canvas in front of you and then you do stuff. I'm not saying it's easy to paint, but it's a solitary thing. Whereas movies combine so many different things from pre-production to production, sound design, production designing, leading, organizing, while still being creative.

  Baran Odar

  Art, Creative, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Museums, Television

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

  Paul Virilio

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Important, Titles

  Source: ctheory.net

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• You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting films premiering there for the first time. At the same time it's such a mess and a confusion. You have to run from one screening to another.

  Miguel Gomes

  Running, Confusion, People

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

  Miguel Gomes

  Real, Trying, World

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

  Miguel Gomes

  Country, Telling Stories, Different

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• Everything today is such a massive visual show. It's very rare to get a film where the characters are raw and real - and you can take people back to where they are watching live cinema. With character-driven action. Not visual-driven action.

  Wade Eastwood

  Real, Character, People

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• [Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

  John Hurt

  Directors, Literature, Language

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I thought immediately this is someone who is writing for the cinema. Not having to go through the tedious business of taking something from literature and making that awful leap that is so difficult to make anyway, from literature to cinema. It's refreshing to be able to deal with a subject like that, to be written where the driving force is the image on screen and you don't need any words. The more that we can do that [in film], the better.

  John Hurt

  Writing, Able, Awful

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

  Brett Morgen

  Creating, Design, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.

  Raoul Peck

  Dream, Reality, Wakes You

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• [Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its significance in influencing film. And I think it still does. Some of that is based on history, but it's also based on really incredible programmers who are showcasing such an incredible variety of cinema.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, Doe, Helping

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

  Bryan Fuller

  Reality, Emotion, Trump

  "Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. Interview with Jim Halterman.

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• Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Capacity, Physiological

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• A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

  Mel Brooks

  Mustache, Needs, Next

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• I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Branches, Sacred, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

  Werner Herzog

  Writing, Editing, Creating

  "Werner Herzog: 'I've made bigger films than Jack Reacher'". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Actors, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Personality, Giants

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing ‘Hitchcock’ and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of ‘Noah’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Lunch, Important, I've Learned

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• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  A. J. Liebling

  Children, War, Hero

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• Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Mediums, Translate

  Interview With Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

  David Lynch

  Father, Kids, House

  Interview With Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Ideas, World

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